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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12
To Owners of Pianos.

On account of the increase IN my
tuning orders here I will visit this
place once a month In the future.
Leave orders at DIR. Averill's or at
w. M. Cutters, agent for ID. H.
Baldwin & CO., rooms.
Jos. RITTER.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

Capt. John Abrahams, one ofthe
owners of the steamer Grace Nor
ris, who is candidate for the Leg
islature in Henry county, met
with a painful accident at Harper's
Ferry, in that county, on Satur-
day. He was kicked in the face
by a horse, breaking his jaw-bone
and knocking out several of his
teeth. He will be confined to the
house several weeks.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

The steamer Hibernia passed up
the river on Sunday last loaded
down to her guards with a miscel-
laneous cargo, and returned to
Louisville Monday with big trip.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

Virginia and are employed in
preference to the Kentucky color
ed laborers, because they work bet
ter and cheaper, as the contrac-
tors claim.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

~ Rev. Z. T. Cody, pastor OF
Buck Run Church. will preach at
the Baptist Church tomorrow.
Sunday, at 7:3o o'clock.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12
Agents TROY LAUNDRY, Dayton, 0.

Mr.. A. w. Harper, on Monday
last, purchased of Jacob Harper
an acres of land near Midway.
Price 500 per acre.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

The Grace Morris went up the
river on Sunday with big barge
of corn, and returned with 800
barrels of whisky.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12
house several weeks.

David A. Peters. auctioneer, re-
ports the following sales of stock
on the streets Monday:
10 head of yearling heifers,
price SII per head.
10 head 2-year-old steers, price
SIG per head.
old COW, S22.5o.
horse, gelding, sos.
old horse, $Is.25.
I horse, 800.
horse, $35.
1 horse, $3.50.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

w. H. Posey, Commissioner of
the Circuit Court, reports the fol-
lowing sales made by him on Mon.
day:
A house and lot on the Owen
ton pike owned by Snellin, $500.
IS acres Of land on Devils Hol-
low pike. $824.o5. John c. Haw-
kins purchaser.
I2H acres Of land near ett,
$I2so. Messrs. Mason & Hoge
purchasers.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-03-12

FURNIsHED By GLOVER DURRHrT, PRO-
PRIETORs LOUISVILLE TOBACCO WARE
HOUSE.

The sales ON our market for the week
Just closed amount to 3,343 hhds with re-
ceipts for the same period of 3,465 hhds.
Sales on the market since January LIST
amOut to 1852 hhds.
We again have to report extremely
heavy receipts and sales for the past
week. The first three days of the week
former prices we're well sustained. the lat
ter part prices have been irregularly lower
on common filters, Tugs, and trash; the
better grades remain as they have been.
The same may be SAID of old burleys.
The following quotations fairly represent
kha m rket for new hurlev
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Instructive Statistics.

The New York Post has published a
table of statistics showing that in more
than dozen large cities of the country
the number of saloons is in inverse pro-
portion to the amount of the license or
tax levied upon them; that as the fee
goes up in size the number of saloons
diminishes, and vice versa. 1t is also
presents statistics to prove that in every
instance in which prohibition has been
tried it has resulted, not in the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic. often not even
in a restriction of it, and scarcely ever
in diminishing the consumption of
liquor, but simply In allowing the traffic
to be carried on free of tax by tnr State.
Take few instances. In Iowa prevI+
GUS to the enactment of prohibition
there were 1884 liquor dealers. Now
there are 4o33. with no revenue to the
State. In Michigan, nnder prohibito.
ry system, there we're 6444 saloons. In
1875 prohibition was abandoned and a
tax of from $500 to $500 substituted. In
six years the number of saloons under
the tax system went down to 3461, and
during that time the revenue Of the
State from the tax imposed amounted TO
81, ,166,921. In Maine, after thirty years
prohibition. Neal Dow, the great prohi-
bition apostle, says, there is not city
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Some Medical Miscellany.

A French journal warns the drinkers
of mineral water that the limestone held
in deposit In the carbonated beverage
finds it's way to the kidneys, and event
ually produces Brights disease. The
writer also protests against ice water as
a provocative of catarrh in the stomach.
He says: water should be drank cool,
but not iced, with. the juice of quarter
or half lemon in it. Water should al
Ways be swallowed slowly. It is not
the stomach which is dry. but the mouth
and throat. II you toss off drink of
water you throw it through your mouth
into your stomach without doing the
former any good, while you injure the
latter by loading it with what it does
not require" There are grains of truth
and sense in this advice, but the proven
bial grain of salt needs to be added sew
eral times. The use of very hard or art
tifcially mineralized water is attended
in some persons and under some coDdi>
tions by variety of injurious conse+
quences, of which perhaps one of the
least logical would be Bright's disease.
The lodgment of calcareous deposits in
the urinary organs or elsewhere has an
evident connection with imbibing them
in solution, but it depends absolutely on
some perversion or weakening of func
tion after all. The true preventive Of
local as of general diseases is a state of
vigorous health. As to ice water, one
mans drink is another's poison. OBJ
serve what agrees and what disagrees
with you. So of lemon juice, it is good
for one and bad for another. 1t is good
to drink as we'll as to eat slowly, but
not for the reasons given above. Thirst
is demand Of the system for replace
ment of the moisture carried off in the
excretions. especially through increased
heat of the body from any cause. The
stomach is the chief organ for absorbing
the water supply, and the heating dry
ness of its drained ahsorbents makes it,
self felt and attended to by the more
sensitive, but not always dryer. upper
portions of the alimentary canal, the
shroat and mouth. Cooling is agreeable
to them, but watering in the stomach is
hat they essentially need, and would
do the business independently of them,
and so would an external bath. We
should say, drink slowly, and drink
with your stemach,as you should eat,and
when it stops absorbing and begins to
fill up, let the mouth stOp.-Sanitary
Era.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Grains Of Gold.

Be not in too great haste, but have
patience.
Nothing is more terrible than active
ignorance.
Treacbery aud falsehood are the vices
of cowardice.
1t is joy to think the best we can of
human kind.
Love is without prudence, and anger
without counsel.
1t is easy to find reasons why other
folks should be patient.
When a heart is full of errors there is
no room for the truth.
Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only
deprived Of its charm.
Genuine beneyolence is not staiona-
ry; it goeth about doing good.
Be gentle with children; some day
they will be men and women.
Everything, even piety, is dangerous
in man without judgment
Simplicity of character is the natural
result of pfOfound thoughts.
Much of our lives depends upon the
persons with whom we live familiarly.
l will chide no heather in the world,
but myself, against whom know most
faults.i
1t is with our judgment as our watch
es. none go just alike, yet each believes
his own.
We complain that our life is short. and
yet We throw away much of it, and are
weary of many of its parts.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of
the divine nature; to be so to the utter+
most of our abilities is the glory of man,
Since time is not person we can over.
take when he is past, let US honor him
with mirth and cbeerfulness of heart
while he is passing.
Despise not any man, and do not
spurn anything; for. there is no man
that has not his hour, nor is there any
thing that has not its place.
| pity the men whose natural pleas.
ures are burdens. and who fly from joy
as these splenetic and morose souls do
as If it were really an evil in itself.
Every day and hour we are sowing
the seeds of character. which one day
will astonish even ourselves by bios
soming forth in actions of which We
had not supposed ourselves capable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
A GARDEN OF PANSIES.


HINTS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF ONE
OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF FLOWERS.
/ have had iD the heat of summer,
where the sun lay till late in the after
noon, pansies an inch and three quarters
across. from seed two years old from the
florist, and ten cent packet in the be-
ginning. 1 used mixture of COW ma
pure, partly rotted forest leaves and
wood ashes. Three quarts of ashes to a
bushel of manure is enough, but two
thirds of the soil of the bed of the MAJ
nure and leaves is not too much for
pansies. 1t makes no difference wheth-
er the manure is fresh or rotted, that l
can see, but it is best to have it buried
with couple of inches of rich soil over
1t, in which to set the seedlings.
A mulch of grass or leaves round the
plants will keep the ground from dry
ing. but if it is not rainy they should be
watered every night. think it is the
best to plant the seeds in large box
filled with the mixture mentioned, and
in the same proportion ;as the seedlings
are rather slow in growth they can be
easier cared for in this way when small.
Young plants beginning to bloom,
covered with evergreen bOughs during
the winter, bloom best in spring and
early summer for me- And seeds plant
ed as early as possible in the spring do
best for late summer and fall. Pinching
out the heart of the plants when small
will make them branch more freely.
During the summer the size of the
flowers can be kept up by watering two
or three times week with the water In
which cow manure has been soaked till
the color of strong coffee. You can
hardly give them too much of 1t. If it
gets on the leaves; rinse them with
clean water. Pick off the faded bios
SONS. II you want seed tie rag around
the largest, finest blossoms, and leave
but one seed pod on plant till ripe
Vicks Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Stylish New York Women.

There is an air of chic and style about the
New Yorker which is unmistakable. Her
1.-THE and supple figure lends itself readily to
any style of garment, however grotesque or
strange, and transforms it at once from
caricature into the most elegant thing i'm
aginable Whatever she puts on becomes
her. Huge hats, which stagger fashionable
women in other cities, have peculiar grace
and charm upon the heads of the stately
beauties who promenade Fifth avenue. High
bonnets cease to be ridiculous, and the man
who loves to crack cruel jokes about the alb
surdity of modern headgsar is silent when he
sees the bewitching effect of lofty quilts and
ribbons surmounting an arch and piquant
face. The tremendous tournure, which looks
SO exaggerated anywhere else, suddenly
strikes us as picturesque and beautiful addi-
ton to the feminine toilet when the New
Yorker adds to it her draperies of silk and
tu.le. No other woman can approach her in
STYLE The famous French milliners vow that
their work becomes a pleasure when the
daughter Of a New York millionaire puts
herself into their hands with a carte blanche.
They can turn her out divine being without
a rival ON earth, for what nature has forgot
ten to do in the way Of beauty art can very
readily supply in her case. There are a dozen
beauties in New York society who would
make their way Immediately in any court in
the world, and whose lovelineSs commands
instant homage-Cor. Providence Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
A BANKERS shrewd Trick.

1t was in the days OF the early railroad,
when it was yet new; the days when the jour
ney to New York was less of q little iauns
than it is now; when greenbecks were not
popular here. One summer morning man,
walking in happy and feverish hasts, with
wild excitement beaming all over his face,
stepped into the office Of Q well known
banker.
Il want exchange for this on New York
GAll right. What Is itl"
The man looked fearfully around him and
then brought out packet
GIts 5000 in greenbacks."
II guess can do it, Going eastis
%Yes. I'm going tomorrow. don't want
to carry all this with me. Couldn't do Il Sure
to get robbed. So give ma draft How
muchF'
%Oh, seeing it's you, one per cenk-t950'
at goes"
20 the banker made out q draft On New
York and took the money.
%You're going tomorrow, are your
GYes"
@Would you mind taking little parcel for
me and handing it to my brotherF'
Certainly I'll do it with pleasure
The banker went into the other room and
presently came back with tbs parcel
HJust put it in your valise, and don't lose it,
VII your
Gl'll take the best care Of its
"Thank you. Good by. Pleasant trip
Arrived in New York, the Californian
went to the address and delivered the pack
age. Then be presented his draft The man
opened the package and gave him the idenH-
cal SIS, 900 in greenbacks he had in San Fran
cisco. He had carried them all the way him
self-San Francisco Chronicle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28

The death of Alex. Mitchell, Presi>
dent Of the Milwaukee s. st. Paul rail-
road, of Milwaukee, is a National loss.
Although Scotchmsn by birth he was
an American in sediment as well as Cit
izenship. He has constructed more
miles of railroad than any other man,
and his fame as railroad executive is
world wide. He began life in Ameri+
ca 4S years ago, a poor young man, with
good education, and accumulated for
tune second to but few men in the coun-
try by business tact. energy, persever-
ance. and that prudence that is charac-
teristic of his native land. In railroad
an0 financial circles his death will leave
a void that cannot be filled. His record
will probably never be equaled by any
man in the development of the country
by railroad enterprise. The loss of
such men, giants In the arts of peace, is
a greater National calamity than the
death of mere statesman. warrior or
scholar, as little as the people are led to
consider this truth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28

or town in the State in which the law Is
not entirely ignored" and intoxication
in this State has not pereeptibly lessen
ed" In Illinois the high liceuse Law
reduced the number of saloons in six.
IeeD months from $4,000 to 1000. and the
State revenue tberefrom was S4.50O.000.
These statistics, with the obvious iD-
ferences therefrom, we're used with tell
ing effect in the recent campaigns in
Michigan and Rhode Island, and the
results in a political sense were most re-
markable. Michigan voted upon re-
turning to prohibition, but the Republi-
can party as an organization steered
clear of the issue. Consequently, while
prohibition is voted down with empha-
sis, the Republicans carry the State. for
the first time in several years, and by
10000 majority. In Rhode Island the
Republican State convention which
renomInated Gov. Wetmvre committed
itself full TO prohibition, and the
party was defeated Wednesday last for
the first time in quarter of a century.
1t requires no great amount of intel
lect to deduce from these facts and fig
ures two conclusions: First, that the
policy of taxation embodied in the Dow
law is the only practical method of re.
stricting the liquor traffic and promoting
temperance by legislation; and second,
that the Republican party, when it com.
mits itself to prohibition, not only does
nothing for the cause of temperance and
sobriety. but endangers its integrity as
an organization. and politically goes to
the wall.-O. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Economical AR. students in Paris.

But it is in clothing, rather than In food,
that student can best economize. To begin
with, fine feathers are out Of place in .
studio; old clothes are the only wear. Hence
clothes that were held too shabby for Boston,
New York and St Louis, renew their youth
for many seasons in the Parisian atsliers.
When at length the wearer Of these cher
ished garments finds that they have lapsed
into hopeless decay, and that, in Difference to
society, he must purchase new ones. he COM
monty chooses corduroy, material here con-
secrated to the use of artists and day labor
ers. The colored flannel shirt Is In high
favor among many American students, part
ly for comfort, partly for economy and part
" in consequences Of the contempt which any
American who has lived under the bright in
huence Of the Troy laundry must feel for the
dingy lack lustre creations Of the Partisan
washerwoman.
As for boots and shoes, they are universally
worn, sometimes too much so. Too high .
polish is considered vulgar, especially for sculp-
tors Many Of the boys do not diSdain to wear
sabot, when working on winter day in Q
damp studio, or when sketching in the country.
A student seldom makes vulgar display
Of a whole new suit of clothes. why said
one young philosopher, II don't own an entire
suit Of good clothes; and II did, should
consider it Wild extravaganza for poor stu
dent like me 20 put them on all at once, unless
on G very swell occasion II 1 have on my
good hat, it's against my principles to wear
my good shoes, for no one can appreciate
them both at the same tine"-Paris Cor.
Boston Herald
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
THE EDITOR AND HIS SON.

Bill Nye Relates q M0urnful Incident IN
Journalistic Life.
have an acquaintance who assists In editing
morning paper, but he does not belisvs IN
allowing his children to utterly forget him.
He does not want his boys to think they are
orphans Just because he Is not always at
home. he is man Of very strong viii and q
strict disciplinarian So he gets a holiday
every two weeks in order to go home and do
up his Furnishing.
One time he found that his eldest or Oldest
sonI do not know which, because am
away from home without my hbrary-hsd
violated the rules OF the house IN q sad man
nef.
As near as am able to come at the facts,
the boy had taken a quart Of corn and
sewed long thread through each kernel,
showing great patience and perseverance In
so doing. He had then tied the ends Of the
threads all together into one knot and scat
tered the corn where large flock Of geese
had been in the habit Of associating and pool
ing for mutual profit and Improvement
A man who came along that way about
dusk said he saw about thirty geese standing
around in a circle looking reproachfully at
each other and trying to agree ON some
method by which they could all go home to-
gether without turning part of their crowd
wrong side out, while behind high board
fence there was boy who seemed to Be en-
joying himself in a small way.
The incident was reported to the boys faith
er, who came home and placed his son under
large dry goods box in the cellar, after
which he piled three or four hundred pounds
of coal on top of the inverted box. He then
made few remarks for the boys good,
which were followed by the mothersd Te-
mark: "RatsI' from the inside Of the box.
After ordering that the box should not be
disturbed until his return, my friend put on
his coat and went back to his work.
This was Just as the returns began TO re-
turn in the autumn of a. My friend did not
go home for two weeks and forgot all about
the boy until it came to do up his punishment
for the fortnight.
When the truth flashed over him he was
filed with the keenest remorse, and went
home as soon as he had sent in the last proof,
but when he went down the cellar he found
the box empty and the following note written
On it with pencil:
'Dear Paw do not weap for me have went
away from my happy home WHARF was once
so gay and free do Not assassinste naw becuz
she Pride up the box with stick OF cord
wood yesterday and fed Ne she left the box
So could bust 4th am gene Far Far Away
do not weap for me it is better for me and you
to be Apart ennyhow it is better for lie 70
be apart like being Apart Good deal better
think win take ham and gar Of Pre-
serves Of which am pashionately fond bus
will Renumerate you some Day ae heaven Is
my jug so No moar at Present from your
proddigle Son Henry."-Bin Nye in New
York World.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
MY HAUNT.

l know bank-a wayside bank
Where birds are singing all the day;
Where tangled thickets, cool and dank,
Are all alive with melody.
know spring-a gurgliDg spring
Mid lichened rocks and ba Ks of moss,
Through tangled ferns its waters sing,
Ger rocks and bars its water toss.
I know brooks ripping brook
Whose drowsy murmur. soft and low,
Lures me away from desk and book,
Soothes me to rest with rhythmic flow.
| know a nook-a quiet nook
Where violets and harebells grow;
A spot to Nature all forsOok,
No sounds but murmurs soft and low;
The murmur of the gurgling spring,
The murmur of the ripping brook,
The dropping hum of insect wing.
The rustling trees by Zephyrs shook.
'Tis there 1 love to lie and dream,
To build my castles In the air;
'Tis there l go when all things seem
To threaten darkness and despair.
Despite my woes, the spring laughs on,
The birds sing low sweet songs to me
Fen the poor flowers l tread upon
Teach lessons of philosophy.
Boston Transcript.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
Church Directory.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath morning and evening; sabbath scboo
at $50 q. m; young peoples of Christian
endeavor, Monday evenings; general prayer
meeting, Wednesday evening. Strangers
welcome to all services.
METB0DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
IuRev. w. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; pm. Sabbath School;
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to ali oul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II an
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm
Monthly prayer mseting Last Saturday ol
each month, Q pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays eacf
month, 2 pm Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at tht
Parsonage, pm
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-28
The Force of Habit.

A tall, lank man, with brown hair and a
Sombrero. shuffied into the Boston Oyster
House yesterday afternoon As he opened
the door the head waiter, or floor walker,
leveled his finger at the stranger as a sign
for him to follow. The latter did not appear
to view the outstretched finger as a friendly
omen, for he lodged behind a post, yelling as
he did so:
"Hyar, thArl You've got the drop on me
this time. Just lower that for a minute and
give feller fair shake"
An explanation followed, and the man
from the west sat down TO dozen ofsBlue
Points without further incident Chicago
Herald.